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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. – John Fowles

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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. – John Fowles

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One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true – John Fowles

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